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Italian Invasion of Ethiopia, 1935
Italy invaded Ethiopia in October of 1935, launching a war that brought the Emperor Haile Selassie into exile, pave Italian occupation, and test the capacity and will of the League of Nation to check the aggression of expansionist states. -
Neutrality Act of 1935
Aimed at reversing the mistakes made that led to the American entry into the First World War. -
Rome-Berlin Axis, 1936
Hitler and Mussolini formed an Axis Alliance as they believed that the line that connected the two capitals would be the Axis around which the entire world would revolve. -
Neutrality Act of 1936
Renewed the law of the previous year with additional restrictions: no loans could be made to belligerent nations, nor were any Americans permitted to travel on the ships of nations at war. -
Marco Polo Bridge War, July 7, 1937
Chinese and Japanese troops broke out at the Marco Polo Bridge near Beijing. The cause of this war is unknown, but the Japanese government uses it as a pretext to launch a full-scale invasion of China. -
Neutrality Act of 1937
This limited the trade of even non-munitions to belligerent nations to a "Cash and carry basis". This means the nation in question would need to use its ships to transport goods to avoid American entanglement at sea. -
Invasion of Poland in 1939
America became involved abroad in the war due to the invasion of Poland from Germany in 1939, led by Adolf Hitler. -
Attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941
The attack of Pearl Harbor from the Japanese Air Force led America to declare war. -
Negotiations with Japan and the U.S, 1941
In early 1941, FDR made the fateful step of freezing Japanese assets in the United States and ending shipments of oil to the island nation. -
U.S Troops invade Italy, 1943
Winston Churchill, Franklin Roosevelt, and Stalin meet in Tehran, leading U.S troops into Italy to invade.